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Eskom strike called off

    JOHANNESBURG

    Power workers have called off their three-day strike after accepting a revised wage offer from Eskom, news reports said on Thursday. “Based on the information I have received, the workers have accepted the offer. The strike will end on Thursday when we make a formal announcement,” said Moferefere Lekorotsoane, a spokesperson for the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM), the largest union at Eskom.

    Some 7,500 workers belonging to the Mineworkers Union (MWU) returned to work at Eskom early on Thursday, but about 16,000 members of the NUM and the National Union of Metalworkers remained on strike as they considered the new offer, reports said.

    An estimated 80 percent of some 23,500 workers went on strike on Tuesday over Eskom’s unilateral 7-9 percent wage increase and demanded 9-11 percent. Lekorotsoane said the new offer would see the lowest paid workers receiving 10% wage rises while the highest paid would receive a 7.5 percent increase.

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